The increased cooking loss (relative to the control) induced by the treatment was inconsistent with the trends observed in chicken thigh meat (Hsieh et al., 2010), in which cooking loss was reduced under HVEF treatment. These contradictions may have resulted from differences in treatment between the two studies. In particular, Hsieh et al.’s experiment was conducted at 4 °C under an electric field strength of 100 kV/m; this different electric field intensity could have accounted for the disparate results.